CORTEX is to AI memory what SSL/TLS is to web communications — cryptographic verification, immutable audit trails, and EU AI Act compliance. In-process. <5ms.
Article 12 enforcement begins August 2026. Non-compliance means fines of up to €30M or 6% of global revenue. CORTEX makes compliance structural, not procedural.
Every AI system operating in the EU must maintain automatic, tamper-proof logging of all decisions with full traceability and periodic integrity verification.
The penalty for non-compliance:
Up to €30,000,000or 6% of total worldwide annual turnover — whichever is higher.
CORTEX doesn't replace your memory layer — it certifies it. Drop-in trust for any AI stack.
Not just a key-value store with embeddings. CORTEX was engineered for trust-critical, multi-agent systems from day one.
Every fact is SHA-256 hash-chained. If anyone tampers with a single byte, the entire chain breaks. Cryptographic proof, not promises.
Semantic (MiniLM) + Full-Text (FTS5) with Reciprocal Rank Fusion. "What did we decide about auth?" returns the actual decision, not a hallucination.
Track unfinished work across sessions. Ghosts surface incomplete tasks, blocking dependencies, and forgotten promises. Nothing falls through the cracks.
Multi-agent Byzantine fault-tolerant verification. Agents vote on facts. ⅔ supermajority required. Reputation-weighted. No single agent can corrupt memory.
Zero-leakage ingress guard detects 11 secret patterns (API keys, passwords, tokens). AES-256-GCM encryption at rest. Your data never leaves your machine.
Autopoietic self-repair, endocrine emotional state, circadian memory cycles. CORTEX doesn't just store — it metabolizes knowledge.
Mem0 raised $24M at $150M valuation. Here's what you get with CORTEX — for free, with zero attack surface.
| Capability | Mem0 | Zep | Letta | CORTEX |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cryptographic Ledger | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ SHA-256 |
| Merkle Checkpoints | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Multi-Agent Consensus | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ WBFT |
| Privacy Shield | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ 11 patterns |
| AST Sandbox | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Local-First | ❌ Cloud | ❌ Cloud | ✅ | ✅ SQLite |
| MCP Native | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| EU AI Act Ready | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Art. 12 |
| Known CVEs | CVSS 9.1 | — | — | None |
| Price | $249/mo | $$$ | Free | Free (Apache 2.0) |
Five forces are converging. The window to build trust infrastructure is closing.
Companies deploying AI agents without audit trails face fines up to €30M. The clock is ticking. CORTEX makes compliance structural.
Mem0 has a CVSS 9.1 SSRF vulnerability (Feb 2026) still open. Enterprise trust requires zero attack surface.
45 min/dev/day × 230 days × 10 engineers = $258K/yr in wasted reconstruction. CORTEX eliminates this debt entirely.
Defense, healthcare, banking, legal — these verticals will never send agent memory to a third-party cloud. CORTEX runs on your machine.
Start free. Scale when you need to. Self-host forever if you want.
30 seconds to install. Zero cloud dependency. Apache 2.0 forever.